Don't Drink The Water - Justin Townes Earle

Something got in the river, well they, they found the source

Just last evening they ain’t heard no more

I want some answers 'fore I’m leaving here today

Don’t drink the water, boy, no matter what they say

Oh, but the man on the stand ain’t said nothing

And he keeps talking, oh just keeps talking

Lord, won’t you look at them guilty eyes

Don’t drink the water, something just ain’t right

With these sons of bitches, well, it’s always something

Land around us, it’s all been poisoned

No way to say it, we in a sorry state

Don’t drink the water, boy, no it just ain’t safe

They started blasting and that, that brung the dust

They skinned the mountains, then come the floods

Now nobody sleeps, nobody sleeps on a rainy night

Don’t drink the water, boys, no don’t believe their lies

'Cause up and down this valley, every town you see

They’re all dealing with the same damn thing

Somebody tell me, where do we go from here?

Don’t drink the water, no don’t you dare

Now folks gettin' sick, I’m talkin' women and children

Ask the man on the stand what he thinks killed 'em

He’ll say «Act of God,» oh, act of God!

Say «Don't drink the water, son, there’s been an act of God»

So that man on the stand, well he’s still talking

No one’s listening but everybody’s watching

I swear he just might not make it home tonight

If I hear him say «Don't drink the water» just one more time

I said, don’t drink the water, don’t drink the water